so it is sounding like I don't have to pay my host the $ for:
" SSL Certificate Protect your visitor's data on web forms, e-commerce sites, secure customer areas, and more with an SSL Certificate expertly installed by A Small Orange. We provide an industry leading grade A 2048 bit encryption certificate. This is a one year PositiveSSL Certificate" (1-year) $39.95 one time
or
"Wildcard SSL certificates save you time and money by consolidating an entire domain with multiple subdomains or multiple servers onto a single SSL certificate." (1-year) $149.00 USD One Time
not that I know what the difference is between these- learning
Ha, that's lame that they charge more for a wildcard.
When the cert is created, you specify the hostname. For example, blog.dandypandys.com. If you also have a shop, it might be shop.dandypandys.com. You'd need 2 certs in this case, one for each subdomain (where dandypandys.com is your domain and blog and shop are the subdomains).
A wildcard can accept any subdomain. It would, in this case, be *.dandypandys.com, where the '*' can be anything. You can have blog.dandypandys.com and shop.dandypandys.com and archive.dandypandys.com and etc. all using the same certificate.